. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. erefore, that theshore being shelvy and shallow, the Thamesoverflowed the mead in part; so that the whit-sters might bleach their summer smocksupon the wide plain which the Thames stilloccasionally inundates. Probably some creekflowed into it, which mistress Ford denominateda muddy ditch. The most ancient repre-sentation which we can find of this locality, is aprint published in the time of Queen Anne, inwhich the mead is represented as enclosed by awall, within which is a triple belt of elms, withtwo formal avenues at equal
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. erefore, that theshore being shelvy and shallow, the Thamesoverflowed the mead in part; so that the whit-sters might bleach their summer smocksupon the wide plain which the Thames stilloccasionally inundates. Probably some creekflowed into it, which mistress Ford denominateda muddy ditch. The most ancient repre-sentation which we can find of this locality, is aprint published in the time of Queen Anne, inwhich the mead is represented as enclosed by awall, within which is a triple belt of elms, withtwo formal avenues at equal distances, and anenormous embanked pond in the centre. Theriver below Windsor Bridge divides into twostreams as at present. The locality of the de-sign at the end of this Act is placed as near asmay be to Datchet Lane. We subjoin a viewof the old bridge connecting Windsor and Eton,as given in this very curious print. The vignettewhich we have given at the end of Act I., asthe scene where Mr. Page trained his fallowgreyhound, is the western extremity of 162 ILLUSTRATIONS. [act IV. ACT IV. ^ Scene II.— / spy a great j^eard under hermuffler. The muffler covered a portion of the face—sometimes the lower part, sometimes the was enacted, says Douce, by a Scottish statutein 1457, that na woman cum to kirk, normercat, with her face mvssaled, or covered that scho may not be kend. |Yet the ladies ofScotland, according to Warton, continued muz-zled during three reigns. Douce gives us thefollowing figures—the first and third from Theatrum, Midierum,—the second,from Speeds Map of England, being the cos-tume of a countrywoman in the time of James I.
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